[PATCH] Change struct flchip_shared spinlock locking into mutex

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Tue Aug 3 04:25:52 EDT 2010


On Monday 02 August 2010, stefani at seibold.net wrote:
> From: Stefani Seibold <stefani at seibold.net>
> 
> This patch prevent to schedule while atomic by changing the
> flchip_shared spinlock into a mutex. This should be save since no atomic
> path will use this lock.

I don't know this code well, but the patch looks correct and seems
to be needed.

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>



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